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CHRISTIANSBURG — Prior to jury selection, David Eisenhauer pleaded not guilty in the 2016 stabbing death of 13 year old Blacksburg native Nicole Lovell in the Montgomery County Circuit Court on Monday.

Eisenhauer, 20, of Columbia, Md., a former Virginia Tech student, stands accused of murder, abduction and concealing a body.

The Blacksburg case has a local connection, as Eisenhauer has family in the Twin Counties and Lovell’s body was found beside Route 89 in North Carolina, just south of the Galax city limits and the Grayson County border.

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Circuit Court

These sentences were recorded in October in the office of Gerald Goad, clerk of the Carroll County Circuit Court, Hillsville:

LOW MOOR –– Alleghany forced overtime with no time left in regulation, but Carroll County controlled the extra session and claimed a 51-45 win over the Mountaineers in a Three Rivers District game Wednesday.

Galax possesses offensive weapons a-plenty with which to hurt an opponent. But even when the rim gets a little tight on its offensive end of the floor, the Maroon Tide has the healthy habit of making sure the opponent’s rim gets even tighter.

Though it ended up with a good-enough shooting percentage of 41 Wednesday night, Galax limited an opponent to six or fewer field goals and 20 or fewer points for a second night in a row, shutting down Holston 53-17 in a nondistrict girls’ game.

Better than anyone else, Galax girls’ basketball coach Howard Mayo knows the physical and mental makeup of his team. If he had any uncertainties about his club’s ability to play rough-and-tumble basketball when necessary, those doubts were laid to rest Friday night.

The Galax boys’ basketball team is inching closer and closer to .500 and is hoping to make the postseason interesting for any higher-seeded team it may run up against. That scenario is looking more and more plausible after the Maroon Tide picked up its third straight win Friday, outmuscling Rural Retreat 54-36 in a Mountain Empire District game.

HILLSVILLE –– For several minutes, on a special night in an otherwise less-than-marquee Three Rivers District girls’ basketball game, Carroll County’s Mariah Carter mingled with friends and family on the court, but Cavalier coach Marc Motley was nowhere to be found. The fact that Carter was visible ruled out the possibility that she and her coach were in some back room playing rock-paper-scissors for the game ball.